To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.